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Foreign Funds Continue
To Evade Central Vietnam

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated May 27, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

HANOI, Vietnam -- Foreign investment in Vietnam's underdeveloped central regions remains a tiny fraction of the total foreign investment in the country, despite Hanoi's attempts to ensure better distribution, a senior government official said.

Tran Xuan Gia, deputy minister for planning and investment, said in an interview that only 7% of all investment approvals at the end of last year were for projects in central Vietnam, compared...